Umakant Premanand Shah

Umakant was born in Baroda on 20 March 1915.^[1] He completed his doctoral thesis on 'Elements of Jaina Art'.^[1] He became the deputy director of Oriental Institute, Baroda in 1954.^[1] He became the head of Ramayana Project at the institute in 1965.^[1]

Shah died in November 1988.^[1]

Umakant P Shah is credited with 62 works in 147 publications in 2 languages and 951 library holdings.^[2]

His works on Jainism includes "Jaina-rūpa-maṇḍana: Jaina iconography".^[3]

• Shah, Umakant Premanand (1987), Jaina-rūpa-maṇḍana: Jaina iconography, Abhinav Publications, ISBN 81-7017-208-X
• Vyas, Dr. R. T., ed. (1995), Studies in Jaina Art and Iconography and Allied Subjects, The Director, Oriental Institute, on behalf of the Registrar, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, ISBN 81-7017-316-7

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